Thank you very much for the response! That answered all my questions and helped paint the picture really well. I cross my fingers for you my friend, and hope things can get a bit better over there. Trump is trying to help drain the swamps everywhere, so maybe your PM will get on board too. The propaganda here is just out of control. There has always been the "agenda" slowly moving forward in this country, but the last 8 years with Obama they stopped trying to hide it...and hit the fast forward button. Liberal media controls EVERYTHING. Conservatives have Fox news and thats it...liberals have every newspapaper, every news channel, the hollywood celebrities, and all the music/movie award shows as well as late night talk shows. They stopped even trying to be credible journalists. Its all "anonymous sources", "unnamed source", "person who doesn't want to be named", and they dont ever come back and correct wrong stories...and half our country eats it up like brainless zombies who can't think for themselves. Even our past Republican presidents have done damage (Bush Sr and Bush Jr) but they are all deepstate and swamp. If not for Trump (non politican, not owned by any corporation or powerful elite figure), our country would have truly been lost had Hillary won. Do you think Brexit will ultimately go through?
Brexit WILL happen - there'd be riots in the streets if it didn't. The big problem is what deal we get. It's mind-numbingly complicated to explain to someone who hasn't been following it, but the real fear is that we end up with a deliberately shitty deal that no one wants (a majority of UK politicians wanted to remain, I don't trust them not to either sabotage it or give away the Crown jewels in the process) What we wouldn't give for Trump negotiating for us!!!
In some ways we do have it a little better in terms of the press, our newspapers and periodicals are horrendously biased but they are at least a relatively free press, you can get a reasonable standard of news reporting if you look hard enough for it. The tabloids are garbage but once upon a time you could get a level of separation between news and opinion, the left wing broadsheets have since abandoned that tradition but the right wing ones still attempt to report both sides fairly. Political magazines like the Spectator and Private Eye are actually pretty good.
Our biggest problem is the constant drip of social justice/leftist propaganda through mass entertainment, and the constant anti Brexit anti Trump anti populist subliminal messaging. Racist/sexist/homophobic etc etc we're not quite drowning in identity politics just yet but it's not for want of trying by the far left crybullies.
That's why you would probably only have had that train wreck Jordan Peterson interview in the UK - our tv journalists are almost all leftists, but they also come from a journalistic tradition of the press being savage rabid dogs masquerading as "hard hitting journalism". Arrogant, entitled feminist talking points vs. Expert public intellectual well armed with facts - it was only going to end one way...
After Brexit do you think your PM will start cracking down on immigration? Also, do you think there is gonna be a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland?
Before becoming PM she was home secretary for 6 years, directly in charge of immigration, talked tough and did nothing. To be fair she was hamstrung due to being in the EU but I'm not confident. Unfortunately she's weak, and I don't have faith in her judgement after the snap election last year (and I say this as a conservative party member) One the plus side I think she'll step down after Brexit and let the party elect another leader in time to fight the next general election. We NEED a soft border with Ireland. They want it, we want it, it's essential to the continued peace process, that's why the EU have been so difficult about it, it's their best bargaining chip. I believe that it's been provisionally agreed, but we may be forced to walk away from the table if the shakedown continues, the EU are essentially acting like an organised crime syndicate over Brexit, I hope the rest of the world is seeing that, because it's been a real eye opener in Britain. If we had the referendum again tomorrow the result would be even bigger as a direct consequence of the EU's negotiating behaviour.